The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-19 00:00:00

STRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It seems that we were right in our construction of Wed nesday's article in a Ministerial Morning Paper. Not many hours after our remarks for yesterday's publication of the Times bad been written, wherein we inferred that there was some " big screw loose" between his High Mightiness in Canada and the dozen of low littlenesses in Whitehall, up comes_ the express from Bristol, with " confirmation dire" of all our most melancholy forebodings. The Great Western's intelligence, that the Earl of Durham had re signed, wasindeed half anticipated in the city, and w ould have been looked for by her Majesty's Ministers had they been m enof even as much decent pride or spirit as the nobleman upon whom they persuaded her Majesty in person to force the arduous government of North America, and whom they afterwards ignominiously abandoned, when the defence and protection due to him would have risked their own tenure of office which they unworthily hold. In the position wherein Lord Durham now finds himself—under a dark cloud of p7esumptive error, and in some sort self-punished for faults of which others, by the difficulties with which they surrounded him, may, for any thing we know to the contrary, have been the real cause—justice, and honour, and every right feeling, pre clude us from saying a single word in the shape of censure or disparagement against him. We have never wished ill to that Noble Lord, nor suspected him of an indifference to right or wrong, when both lay plainly before him. We shall, therefore, on this occasion, and until Lord Durham has an opportunity of meeting face to face in Parliament the spiteful enemy who led the assault upon his character, and the false friends who sneaked away, leaving an absent man, who relied upon their fidelity, exposed to a flight of envenomed arrows from behind—until that day of trial comes we shall refrain from the utterance of any opinion upon the public measures, apart from the personal appoint ments, proposed or executed by the Noble Lord, see ing that he has never yet been heard in explanation of them. One thing, however, is necessary to be borne in mind upon this subject. When the ordi nances of Lord Durham respecting the deportation of State criminals cAnie to be questioned in each House of Parliament, the Conservatives agreed in passing a Bill of Indemnity. The Conservatives acted in no spirit of hostility towards Lord Durham. All the lawyers, without exception, in whom they put their trust, and by whose opinions, bad the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel held office, they would have been implicitly guided—all those constitutional lawyers, without exception, sitting on the Consert.ltive side in either House of Parliament, pro- nounced the Durham ordinances to be against the law. The Conservatives, therefore, with this doctrine of their own legal advisers placed unequivocally before their eyes, could in the nature of things have done no otherwise than resort to one of the two following courses :-Ist, a vote of censure ; 2d, a Bill of Indemnity ; which latter was likewise an admission that the law, strictly speaking, had been violated by Lord Durham. There was not breathed a syllable indicative of anxiety to thwart, perplex, or mortify the Noble Earl, or to cast a shade of suspicion upon his motives, not at least by any Conservative Lord or Commoner in either House. But the case was far diffe- rent with the official Radicals and Whigs. Their selec tion of Lord Durham for a post so embarrassing—the ex tensive powers wherewith they intrusted him— the mani fold, undefined, and vexatious duties which they exacted from him—the fearful responsibility which they imposed upon him, and the unexampled snares for the judgment and sagacity of a public officer planted on so novel an eminence, which were inherent in the very nature of the functions he must discharge—all demanded it of the Mi nisters, as men imbued with the rudest elements of honour and generosity, that they should go to the utmost verge of what was possible for the protection of a nobleman so com mitted in their service. Now, the Whig Lord Chancellor, and the other lawyers of that faction, maintained, in op position to the Conservative lawyers, that the acts of Lord Durham were perfectly justifiable, not in constitutional policy merely, but in strict and positive law, and therefore that a Bill of Indemnity was a superfluous proceeding— nay more, an inconsistent one—further still, a gross injustice to Lord Durham. But what was the conduct of the Queen's Ministers as a body ? Did they act upon the assurance of their own law ad visers, by which they might have been honourably, because they were constitutionally, bound ? No, the dastards I they took counsel of their own low-minded imbecility, mingled with a deep-rooted hatred of Lord Durham. They flung away the authority with which their own col league, the first judicial officer of the realm, had armed them ; they maintained, in direct contradiction to his words, that the ordinances of the Noble Earl, and his disposal of the prisoners, were illegal ; they did not make the practical use which they might have done of the obvious and most interesting fact, that Lord Durham's banishment of pri soners, upon whose crimes, whether as to their heinousness or their certainty, no two honest men could have differed, was conceived in a spirit of mercy and humanity, and ought to have been looked at, even if illegal, with forbearance and respect ; they did that from pure, unmanly, and cold hearted selfishness, which the Conservatives were forced to do by a conscientious sense of duty in spite of their declared repugnance, and sacrificed the head of their own Executive Government' in North America, because an adverse vote in the House of Commons might have compromised their own wretched salaries, and given them nothing in ex change but that reward which they have never yet tasted —the sympathy and esteem of those with whom in judg ment they differed. We have studiously abstained through out from expressing so much as the hint of an opinion upon the political merits of Lord Durham's Canadian Ad ministration. We know too little of its details ; but we have in the above-mentioned data ground more than suffi cient for asserting that never was public man more scur vily or basely deserted by those who were pledged, by obli gations which cannot be broken without ruin to those who disregard them, to have made a rampart of their own bodies round their friend and delegate, and to have identi fied their political existence with his. Independent of all feeling, pro or con., towards Lord Durham, was it not a painful thing to hear from the lips of any English gentleman a passage like that which follows? In conclud ing his verbal address to the Provincial Delegates of Bri tish North America, of which we gave a brief sketch yes terday, but a full report this day, the Noble Lord stated that opposition from Lord Brougham, and from those acting with him, was no more than he might have ex pected ; but he was compelled to say that he was put down —sacrificed—by his FRIENDS—those whose duty it was to stand forth in his defence —at a period when his political enemies were using their utmost energies to destroy him." The sting of this reproachful passage is its unquestionable and disgraceful truth. Is it not true that the duties of Lords Melbourne, John Russell, and the rest of them, was to defend Lord Durham ? Suppose the Duke of Welling ton in such a situation, and one of his colleagues so at tacked by one of the tribe of Brougham—why the illustrious Duke would have cut his own conquering right hand from his body rather than have betrayed, as these Ministers have done, the absent man who trusted in him for support. No party can stand against poltroonery such as Lord Durham complains of. The people of this country have tolerated before now all manner of objectionable Ministries but one, without many signs of more than excusable impatience. A corrupt Ministry, an imprudent Ministry, a careless Minis try, a wasteful Ministry, a stupid Ministry, a tyrannical Ministry—of each and all of these the British nation has ere now felt the sweets. But there is one other sort of Administration which the people of England have not yet brought themselves, nor is it their nature, to endure—viz., a sordid, mean, perfidious, and unmanly Ministry. To assist in ridding themselves of such a nuisance they would seek help, we almost persuade ourselves, from Feargns O'Connor, Sharman Crawford, or Lord Durham himself —from any quarter, however unpromising, except O'Con nell or Lord Brougham.—Times. Dispatches were yesterday received from the Earl of Durham of the date of the 29th September. His Lord ship has not positively resigned, though we should be de ceiving our readers if we did not state that he expresses a strong wish to be allowed to resign, founded on a convic tion that, after the factious proceedings in the House of Lords, it would no longer be in his power, in the situation which he now fills, to be of service to his country. His Lordship believed that he had been successful beyond his most sanguine expectations in forwarding the great object of his mission, when the receipt of the accounts of the pro ceedings in the House of Lords in an instant defeated all his plans, and incalculably advanced We can ma k e the cause o f indepen dence and separation from thiscountry. allowance for the irritation produced in a generous mind conscious of the best intentions, and devoted heart an d soul to the restoring the authority of the parent Stat e i n n been in the case of his these valuable colonies , by wise this devotion is met, as it has and healing measures, when Lordship, by a factious determination in the House of Lords to thwart all his endeavours, to the ectin with all o who have striven to cement and strength en England, and to infuse fresh hopes and courage intothiotsies who wish to throw off allegidetermination to to her Maj es ty. But to be hoped, as he has merely expressed his to resign he will, on more ma ture consideration of the be nefit to his country which might be effected by his presence in Canada, and the dangerous consequences to be appre hended from his acting on the determination, see reason for changing his opinion. In any case it was his intention to remain a month at least in Canada, and to return to England by the way of the United States, in order to pro mote as much as he possibly could the interests of his country, by strengthening tht favourable disposition which he had already succeeded in producing in America towards this country. When his Lordship, who has so much at heart the welfare of his country, becomes satisfied, as he soon must, by the evidence forced on his attention from every quarter, that her best interests may suffer from his - - - resignation at so critical a conjuncture, we do not i renounce the hope that he will remain to perfect the great work he had undertaken, and hitherto con ducted with such hopes of ultimate success. It is hardly possible to describe the effect produced in Canada by the wicked and factious proceedings in the House of Lords. Alarm, anger, and something approaching almost to despair, instantly took possession of every mind. We have received several accounts from sources on which we place the most perfect reliance, and they concur in stating that the authority of the mother country, and the kindly feelings entertained towards her, have suffered an awful abatement by the proceedings in question. The people think that they betray, on the part of the inhabitants of England and the home Legislature, an indifference to wards their welfare which they did not deserve, and which they conceive it heinous on the part of England to feel towards them, There are symptoms of another outbreak which cannot be mistaken, and a gloom hangs over all parties in consequence. The French Canadians feared Lord Durham, and were unwilling to incur his resentment, believing that they might gain something from him by submissive conduct, while by another course they could gain nothing. The British, on the other hand, had the utmost reliance on his Lordship that if put on his mettle he would not be wanting to the exigencies of the crisis, and that if the French should rebel or affront him he would crush them. Just as rebellion was venturing I to look up, and all the loyal and well-affected were pre paring for the fray, full of confidence, a wicked faction sought to disarm them by depriving them of their leader. One thing, however, has happened. The Constitutional ists, who were peevish, and inclined to quarrel with Lord Durham on small points, have, we learn, rallied, and are now as one man in his favour. A meeting of them was to I t a k e place at Quebec on Monday, the Ist of October ; and in Montreal on Wednesday, the 3d of October. When the disastrous mws reached Quebec the mer chants and others went up on the instant, to the number of three hundred and ninety-five persons, to write their names at the chateau for Lord Durham. This was done in the course of the morning, without concert, con sultation, or prepare' im, but, as it were, from an unanimous instinct, the thought being no sooner suggested than acted upon by all. 'Fee moment the news burst on the people of Quebec they were seen talking in groups in the streets—all business was suspended—men felt as if some domestic calamity had befallen them. Some of the Deputies from Nova Scotia and other colonies actually shed tears, and they were seen clenching their hands and look ing quite savage as they talked to each other about the Lords and Lord Brougham. It was impossible that Lord Durham could witness these strong manifestations unmoved and we would fain hope that the gratitude of the Canadians will counteract the impression prouced on him by the anti national proceedings of the llouse of Lords. The press, part of which was against Lord Durham, dropped quarrel ling, and in the alarm and anger of the moment came for ward vociferously in his Lordship's favour. Lord Brougham wasburned in effigy. Three thousand individuals were at the burning, and the procession, about 700 or 800, mostly all English. The likeness of Lord Brougham was, we are told, exceellent, and the affair was cleverly managed. The face of the Noble and Learned Lord was of carved wood, and it took some time to batter it to pieces ; but the people were resolute, and would have the work done. It is well the Noble and Learned Lord was not in Canada. The tone and manner of the habilans as they pass you in the streets and the woods are, we are told, very much altered lately. Preparations for insurrection were going on, and a piece of or dnance had been taken concealed in a waggon under a heap of apples. Nothing certain, however, seems to have been known as to the time when a rising would take place ; but there seems to be little doubt that some plan has been formed. We have before us a letter from a most respectable source in Montreal, dated the 30th of Sep tember, in which the well-informed writer says— " The signs of the times are not, in truth, of the most pleas ing nature. Lord Durham is, I fear, about to leave us, and he certainly will not leave us in a more secure or prosperous state than he found us. The loyal portion of the population are depressed in the ratio in which the disaffected are buoyed up, which makes it an easy matter for the demagogues to prove to their credulous countrymen, that, although acci dentally overcome in the field, they are the conquerors in England; consequently that their cause is a just one, and need only to be persevered in to ensure success. No one here doubts that preparations are making for another attempt to sub vert the Government, and upon a better and more extensive scale of organization than before. Midnight meetings are held throughout the district. Secret oaths are administered, and can non, muskets, and sabres are smuggled in from the States. These things are notorious, and, you will admit, are indi cations not to be misunderstood. I myself saw, only two days ago, a piece of ordnance which had been seized on, crossing the lines ; it was a nine-pounder, mounted, ap parently new, and said by military men present to be ac companied by every equipment necessary for actual ser vice. Keeping in mind the unprovoked nature of the late re bellion, the Woodshed and misery which it occasioned, and that, after it had been put down, not a single life was sacri ficed in propitiation of the violated laws, you cannot but agree with me that mercy shown to the instigators of this rebellion has added to the evil it was intended to remove; and you will understand the feelings of the British population when they hear so much sickly sentimentality about the poor misguided Canadians, which appears the popular phrase on your side of the:water, and not one word of sympathy for the poor men murdered in cold blood because they were firm in their alle giance. We have no feelings of revenge to gratify ;we want no unnecessary sacrifice of human life ; what we require, and at the hands of the Government we have a right to require it, is security for the future, protection of our lives and proper ties, and a fair field for the exertion of our industry and enter prise. It is the desire, I doubt not, as it is the duty of Go vernment, to afford such protection ; but so long as they re main wilfully blind to the cause, we never can hope that they will remove the effect. It is neither a real nor a fancied grievance that has fostered a feeling of disloyalty among the Canadians, but an innate hatred of British rule, which would lead at least 19-20ths of them to attempt to drive the Anglo-Saxon race from the country. So deep-rooted has their hatred of us become, that it has deadened every generous feeling within them. They are no longer alive to any impulse of gratitude. Mercy is thrown away upon them, and fear only will deter them from making the attempt to gain the ascendancy by every means in their power—the end they have in view appears to justify the basest means; and robbery, arson, and murder, become virtues towards its accomplish ment. So much for the ' poor misguided Canadians.' I only trust the next six months' experience may not justify all I have said of them." Another letter from Montreal of the same date will be found elsewhere. The writer, speaking with reference to the meeting at Montreal to be held next day, anticipates the most disastrous results from Lord Durham persisting in his determination to leave the colony, and he speaks of a recent attempt to surprise the Isle aux Noix, with the view of making it the rallying point of all the rebels, murderers, thieves, and vagabonds on the Continent. Other letters from Quebec, Toronto, and Brockville speak the same language. Such have been the disastrous results of the wicked interference of a faction in the House of Lords with the Government of Canada. It is curious that Lord Brougham should be only powerful to do ill in that House. Had he proposed any wise or good measure their Lordships would have given him no countenance ; but the moment they saw him embarked in a cause likely to lead to the most extensive mischief—to consequences which we are even afraid to contemplate— they cheered him on as if' a vision of the dismemberment of the empire gladdened their spirits. What a revenge Lord Durham would take of these enemies of their country were he to leave Canada a prey to the evils they designed for Canada! The English people, patient as they are to a proverb, would surely visit on the wicked men who hal looed on Lord Brougham the consequences of their crime towards the nation. But, we trust his Lordship will, on second sd thoughts be prevailed on to stay the plague, to con rsatigllemexenerttwhhii i er Canada his post of honour when danger is abroad, and paralyzed as he must to a certain extent be by the eneou cmhsetlhfetoiLs o p r r ( e ls ve h o a t ve th g e iven to the . disaffected, to be lost. French Canadians mu st dis memberment of the empire. No time T d estroyed. he natio w na h l y ity cannotof t the we take a chapter out of the book of the Americans ? When Louisiana was the population was handedwholly over to them by Bonaparte ]Tench, and the French lan guage and laws were only k succeeded in making N 1 Onrolwn. In a few years Jonathan and the rest of Louisiana completely American. But the spirit to have tak en possess i on of thespsciri h toool f boy statesmen in imbecility seems whose keepi ng were t h e destinies of the empire. The Americans were bound by all manner of stipulations towards the people of Louisiana, and yet yet . they have made them completely American ; hi ' un limited powers over the Canadians, wh o m we conquered, have done all that we possibly could to p r e vent v their amal gamation with the British settlers, and a ha v e succeeded in putting it into their heads that by k • sepa rate they may become keeping themselves We a great and independent nation. must listen to the time is dicta tes of commo n sense . Th e now come for deciding abandon C ana d a, or make it th oroughlyprotected a British co l on sons and properti es must h b Y - Canadians mu s t b e prevented from ; but the French settlers, who ou g ht t o b e secured in the en jo y ment o f t h e i r oppressing th e B r i t i s h properties and the e xerc i se o f their indust r y. E veryt hi ng will depend on the right improvem en t of the present time. —Morning Chronicle. The resignation of the Earl of Durham under the pre sent circumstances of our American col on i es an d Administration at ho me m ust be allowed to be rather f the an i m portant event. We would a dd , however, that suc h is our opinion of the Noble Earl, that we regard it as hig hly discreditable to th e m a na g ers of our affairs that the resio nation of such a mat) - , ~. -\,,11t i ,l ioll,olt,tok. e . li e never ought to have been allowed the opportunity of mani festing his indiscretion in the arrangement of important and 1 difficult public business in our colonies, nor of producing THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER l9, 1838. inconvenience by abandoning that business, when it was found expedient by the Legislature at home to protect him from the legal consequences of the errors into which he had fallen. It will probably be recollected that, when Lord Melbourne first blustered against the Canada Go vernment Indemnity Bill, and then consented to it, the Ministerial Papers were filled with pusillani mous expressions of hope and anticipation that Lord Durham would not take offence, but would continue to enjoy at once his indemnity and his place. There are indications, however, that of late the Ministers themselves have ceased to indulge such anticipa tions. We shall be very glad if it prove hereafter that careful and energetic measures have been taken by the Executive Government to provide for the probable results of what Lord Durham has done, and of his determination not to proceed. But it would be to carry courtesy beyond the bounds of common sense, and to give more weight to the promptings of hope than to the lessons of experience, if we were to place any confidence in the sagacity or ac tivity of the present Administration of our Colonial De partment. To believe that a combination of both has been exhibited, however important the circumstances, and press ing the exigency, which call for the exertion of both, is al together out of the question. It will be more reasonable to suppose that the Whig Ministers have (with their usual skill and rigour) left events to arrange themselves. The Lieutenant-Governor will succeed, as a matter of course, to the duties of the Governor-General, and it will be discovered by the Ministers here, those sa pient directors of the affairs of the British empire, that, notwithstanding all the pomp and circum stance, and the vast national importance which were at tached to the " mission of Lord Durham," the affairs of the Canadas may be sufficiently taken care of by the able and gallant officer who was in Canada at the time that the pompous " mission" was resolved upon. As to the pro priety of Lord Durham's conduct in returning, that must be judged of when all the circumstances attending it come before the public. We have no doubt, however, that many of the same honest and independent Journals, which in such piteous accents implored his Lordship not to be angry, and with so much mock scorn imparted their confidence that his Lordship would too much despise the policy of the Tory party to be led to resign by the passing of a Bill which they supported, will now find out that his Lordship showed " a proper spirit" in resigning ; and will proclaim that whatever inconvenience may arse from his return must be laid to the account of the Tories. Such is the ordinary march of Whig-Radical consistency, and we have no reason to expect that it will undergo any alteration in the pre sent instance. From the Address of Lord Durham, however, which has been published, it is clear that he puts the saddle on the right horse at present, whatever party spleen may induce him to do hereafter. The decision of the British Parliament, in which the Ministers of the Crown felt it their duty to acquiesce—this is the reason assigned by Lord Durham for abandoning his Canadian Go vernment, and, so far as regards the Indemnity Bill, that is the right and the fair way to speak of it. It was a measure decided upon by Parliament, and acquiesced in by the Ministers in both Houses. Nay, all parties had a hand in it. The Radical Leader in the House of Lords (Lord Brougham) suggested it, the Tory p ar ty i n t h at House supported it, and the Ministers carried it through the House of Commons. If the Indemnity Bill was indeed a rebuke and an offence to Lord Durham, it was a rebuke and an offence which stood upon a very broad foundation. But we repeat that the propri e ty o f t h e abandon ment of the Canadian Government by hi s L or d s hi p , i n consequ ence of the passing of that Bill, cannot b e deter mined upon until all the circumstances are more fully known. The first duty of a public man is to consider the public service—the next his own dignity and self-respect. If Lord Durham had reason to believe that his continued presence in Canada and superintendence of its affairs were very important to the security of that province and to its faithful and useful adherence to the mother country, and that this would be the case notwithstanding the passing of the Indemnity Bill, then no feeling of personal vexation, however sharp it might be, should have caused him, at such a time, to abandon his government. If, on the other hand, he felt that his presence and exertions as Governor were of no particular importance, or that the passing of the Indemnity Bill had taken away his power of being practically useful, then the course he has taken is not an ill-tempered indiscretion, but an honourable step of duty. When further explanations, and especially Parliamentary explanations, come before the public, we shall be enabled to decide whether Lord Durham has acted in conformity with his well-known character previous to his " Canadian mission," or in conformity with a better sort of temper and judgment, which we should be happy to believe that his Lorahip had acquired from the Canadian climate. The return of Lord Durham and other events of interest in relation to our colonial and foreign policy will naturally create in the public mind something like an impatience for the re-assembling of Parliament. We do not expect, how ever, that Ministers will be more likely in this matter, than in many others which we might mention, to sympathise with the public sentiment. Perhaps about the last days of January we may look forward to an interesting, if not a loving interview, betweeen Lords Durham and Brougham, upon the floor of the House of Lords.—Morning Post. When Lord Durham, enveloped in the imperial mantle of his mock autocracy, with all the pomp and ostentation which became so great a personage, ascended " That chair of state which far outshone Henly's gilt tub or Flecknoe's Irish throne," wherein he was to wield the august sceptre of his new dominions, we felt no disposition to join in the acclamations of the flatterers of his dynasty, and just as little inclination do we now feel to unite with them in weeping . over its downfall. Short as the career of Quixote's squire in Barra taria was the Governorship-extraordinary of all the Canadas, and scarely less ridiculous. But judging from what the his torian of the knight of La Mancha bas left on record of the court, councils, maxims, speeches, and decisions, of the Go vernor-extraordinary of the Barratarian territory, Sancho Panza was the wiser, and certainly the more modest Go vernor of the two. So great was his humility, indeed, that when he had experienced f rom th e h an d s of his friends quite as severe a po mme lli ng as L or d B rou gham and his partisans administered out of pure kindliness and good nature to Lord Durham, he only exclaimed, " I was not born to be a Govern or , nor t o d e f en d i s l an d s or c iti es f r om enemies that break in upon them. I understand better how to plough and dig, and plant and prune vines, than to make laws and take care of provinces and kingdoms. In my hand a sickle is better than a sceptre:' We suspect, though he does not admit it, that Lord Durham knows better how to make a fortune out of a coal-mine than to restore pros perity to a sinking colony. That the " untoward event" of his Canadian Autocratship's resignation should make the Globe and Courier melancholy is natural enough, but we cannot quite so well understand why it should make the Standard i nconso l a bl e . If i n an y p u blic situation in which Lord D ur h am h as ever b een p l ace d h e h a d e xhibited any thing like the capacity and talents of a statesman, we could make some allowance for the grief of our respe.cted. Tory Contemporary upon this moving occasion ; but inas much as his Lordship, whether in the position of a Cabinet Minister, or an Ambassador Extraordinary to the Court of Russia, only displayed those qualities which, in the one situation, made his friends very glad to get rid of him, and in the other were amply taken advantage of to the detri ment of England's best interests by the insidious enemies of the country, we see in his withdrawal from the govern. ment of our N ort h• Ame r ican d epen d enc i es no cause o f patriotic lamentati on . E ven i n t h e ran k s o f th e Whi g - Radicals, as stuff to carve Governors-Extraordinary out of, " We trust there are within the realm Five hundred good as he." There could not be easily pointed out one of his rank and station worse qualified than Lord Durham for the govern ment of an important portion of the British empire at such a juncture as the present. He who, after havin g re commended himself by doctrines striking at th e existence of constitutional monarchy and rational freedom to a Glasgow mob, truckled to the Autocrat of Russia, and earned while in the service of his country the decora tions of despotism bestowed by a hand r e d w i t h the blood of unfortunate Poland, was just the man who might be expected to play, unconsciously and out of giddiness and vain glory, the game of the American democrats. The want of firmness, sound judgment, and high British spirit which Lord Durham displayed in his transactions with the Court of St. Petersburg, and which ought to bring burn ing blushes into the cheeks of Englishmen, when they think of the unexpiated Russian insults to the British flag and the piratical seizure of the Vixen, made us anticipate nothing from his Transatlantic statesmanship but injury and humiliation to England. Under his " sceptre" the Canadas must have been sooner or later lost to this country. If this be an advantage to the country, as the philosophical Radical declared unreproved in Parliament last Session it would be, any other Whig-Radical Governor can do as much. Let not our Liberal friends despond—there is no want at the present day of functionaries who can reduce to practice the political theories of our Leaders and G. rotes, our Hu mes an d Bowrings, and assist the " march of mind" by breaking u p th e British empire. As to the Ministry who conferred on Lord Durham his high appointment, they were not a c t ua t e d in their choice (we did them the justice at the time to say) by a respect for his statesmanlike capacity, or an admiration of his political talents. They were m ove d no t by love but fear. They sent him into splendid exile abroad, because they dreaded him as a formidable rival at home. It must be admitted that the fear they had of him, and his powers of courtly intrigue wben on this side of the water, soon evaporated when he had crossed the Atlantic, for the readiness with which they acquiesced in Lord Brougham's insulting proposal to clip the Wings of their own dictatur, while yet preparing for his eagle flight of power, showed a pretty considerable degree of disdain for the majesty of the Canadian Emperor, and very little cau tion in giving it expression. Perhaps, upon his return to this country, the alarm of Ministers will revive. Cannot they app ease hi s w r a th by r ecalling the " aspiring" Clan ricarde, of ballooning celebrity, and sending him once more to take lessons in autocratic government at Court of the Czar, whence he may possibly return with an additional store of :ibands and medal lions to attest the sincerity of his political faith while preaching democratic doctrines? The Standard, in al luding to Lord Durham's resignation, says—" Dismay is not too strong a word to describe the feeling with which we contemplate this most unhappy conjuncture. A cen tury cannot replace the American colonies in the position of security in which they rested three months ago—well if any length of time can effect the restoration without an ocean of bloodshed. The " position of security" in which the Canadas rested at any time since Lord Durham went out there, and took to his councils Mr. Turton, Mr. Gib bon Wakefield, and other distinguished men, was one not likely to be much impaired by his Lordship's absence from those colonies, as may be very well understood from the fallowing description of that " position of security" fur nished by the Standard's own private correspondent : " Various private communications seem all to agree in re presenting the Canadian troubles as being anything but ended. We have it from good, and we may almost say undoubted authority, not only that rebellious movements are contem plated in the lower province, but that the preliminaries are actually arranged, and this upon a much more efficient scale than on a former occasion. One private communication, in particular, represents that large bodies of the disaffected have been for some time past assembling together in such several quarters as will p rove th e mos t e li g ibl e an d contiguous to the point, and which may be fixed upon as the general rendezvous, when it may be thought advisable to concentrate the whole force into one focus. These arc believed to possess a very large supply of arms and ammunition, which are secreted about in a diversity of places, and quite ready for use as soon as required ; and the same authority alludcs to the gross neglect on the part of the Governor-General in not instituting proper inquiries into the nature and meaning of these movements, so as to satisfy the public mind as to what v.ill be done in opposing them." What is the position of security of that country in which " large bodies of the disaffected have been for some time past assembling together in such several quarters as will prove the most eligible and contiguous to the point which may be fixed upon as the general rendezvous, when it may be thought advisable to concentrate the whole force into one focus ?" What, we ask, is the security of a country under the nose of whose Governor such preparations for a rebellious outbreak have been made unchecked? What is the amount of evil which will be inflicted upon such a country by the withdrawal of the person intrusted with its political destinies, whose sagacity to detect and vigilance to prevent the recurrence of the calamity of rebellious out break may be estimated from what is said of " the gross neglect on the part of the Governor-General in not institut ing proper inquiries into the nature and meaning of those movements, so as to satisfy the public mind as to what will be done in opposing them ?" To have " secreted about in divers places a large supply of arms and ammunition quite ready for use as soon as required" must have been a work of time. While those preparations have been going on under Lord Durham's government for some time past, according to the statement of the Standard's accredited correspondent, his Lordship was engaged in ostentatious displays of the pomp and parade of office, and in exercis ing that speechifying talent, a great deal of which cannot compensate, in a ruler of the millions, for the want of a little practical wisdom. The Governor-General who al lows rebellion to organise itself under his administration without inquiry, and talks loudly of the " security" which he has established while treading upon the surface of a vol cano, may be a very clever orator, but must undoubtedly be a weak and blind politician. It is no great compliment to pay the character of Sir John Colborne to say that we could have much more confidence in him than in such a man—for we are quite sure that in the situation of Gover nor he would neither " fold his arms" through a vain confi dente, while he saw rebellion preparing, nor indulge in the star-gazing speculations of fantastic schemes and visionary policy, while the treacherous enemies that ought to be crushed were arranging their destructive combustibles for a dreadful explosion. On the whole, if Lord Brougham has not been instrumental to conferring a great benefit on his country by being the primary cause of the resignation of Lord Durham, he has certainly not inflicted any very seri ous injury on the public interests. Let Mr. Charles Bul er or Van Buren lament that event ;—we cannot.—illorn ing Herald. The approaching session of Parliament will be one of the deepest importance. It will surpass in interest any session within the memory of man. Parties are mere equally balanced in the House of Commons than they were ever known to be on any previous occasion ; while the pressure ,from without, directed and kept up as it will be by the delegates from the Working Men's Associations from all parts of the country, will be felt to be all but resist less. But it is not only in the state of matters and the po sition of parties at home that Parliament will feel itself placed in a most critical and trying position when it again assem bles ; the state of our colonial possessions, especially in the case of the Canadas, will constitute the source of much anxiety and solemn deliberation to the Legislature. Matters, indeed, bear at this moment a most serious, if not most threatening, aspect. No lover of his coun try--no one who wishes well to mankind, and who is anxious for the preservation of peace and order in this coun try and the Canadas, can meditate on the existing state of things without the most intense solicitude, if not the deepest alarm. It is to be hoped that our fears will prove ground less, and that the threatened disasters may be averted ; they can only be so by the exercise of a more than ordinary wisdom on the part of the Government and the Legislature. At such a crisis, we would adjure all who are desirous to see the Government of the country carried on on liberal and en lightened principles, to bury their minor differences—for a time at least--in the dust, and unite together for the pur pose of carrying into practical effect those great principles which they are unanimous in regarding as essential to the well-being of the nation.—Morning Advertiser. Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, a dreadful a cc id ent b y fi re occurre d to a f ema l e c hild, name d Julia Burrows, about ten years old, whose parents reside in Stingo-lanc, St. Marylebone. It appears that at the time mentioned a female lodger was alarmed by screams, and found the poor child completely enveloped in flames. She imme diately ran into her room, and seizing a quilt, wrapped it round her, .and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The child was immediately conveyed to the hospital, where she lies in a precarious state. The parents were from home at the time of the accident. An inquest was held last night in St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of Edmund Mews, late in the employ ment of Messrs. Brechino, ale-brewers, Bishopsgate-street. It appears that the deceased was engaged in a mash-tub, ar ranging the tackle of the machinery used for mashing malt, when, by some mischance, the machine was put in motion, and the deceased was killed. Verdict—" Accidental death." On Wednesday morning last one of the watermen plying from the Barbican picked up a coffin floating off the rocks under the citadel, which he took on shore, and, on being opened it was found to contain the body of a newly-born male child. Under the shoulders a piece of hearth-stone was placed with a view to sink the coffin. An inquisition was sum moned by R. J. Squire, Esq., borough coroner, to inquire into the cause of the death of the child, and when assembled to view the body one of the jurymen, a carpenter, identified the 'coffin as being made at his shop on the 19th of August. This led to an inquiry, and the apprentice who made it was called. He also identified the article. The person who or dered the coffin, contrary to custom, would have it made in the proper form, instead of as a chest, as is usual for still-born infants, or those which die in the birth. In addition to this fact, there were marks on it which left no doubt on the minds of the master and his apprentice as to the identity of the coffin. The parent of the child for which it was made was sent for, and he also identified it, and stated that his infant was buried in it at Charles Church oa the 21st of August last. The child found was not the infant which had been buried in the coffin ' • the one buried was a female. This statement was borne out by Mr. Rattenbury, surgeon, who was present at its birth. A post mortem examination of the body was taken before Dra. Cookworthy and Derry, both of whom declared that the child had not been dead above 48 hours ; that it was their o pinion it was born alive, but had died from a pressure of the back part of the head in birth. The jury returned a verdict accordingly, and the grave at Charles Church was di rected to be opened to ascertain the fact of the coffin ha v i ng b een stolen.— p a Telegraph. Yesterday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, an impudent robbery was committed at the house of a widow lady, named Hettit, of No. 18, White Hart-place, Kenning ton-lane, by a man who came to the door with a note, which b e desired the servant to present to her mistress, saying that he required an answer. The fell ow took advantage of the mo mentary absence of the servant, and contrived to escape with a valuable black silk cloak, the property of Mrs. Petitt. From subsequent inquiries of the policeman on duty it is supposed that the thief had practised the same trick at another house in the neighbourhood during the present week ; and as a tole rably clear description of his person has been given, he will, no doubt, be less successful in future. A F FRAY AT SEA.—A ser i ous a ff ray took place a f ew months since at sea, on board a South Sea vessel, which is daily e xpected in the River. A quarre l and disturbance, arising out of some words which passed between the second mate and a sailor, near the Isle of Timor, ended in a mutiny, w hi c h the Captain, in endeavouring t o suppress, with a In g , n sw ord aimed a blow at one of the cre w , w hi c h the second mate, f o r whom it was not i n t en d e d , received. The sword passed through the mate's body, and he soon afterwards ex pired. One man, said to be a r i ng l eader in the affair, is in con fi n ement, and, on the a rr i va l o f the ship in this port, will b e brought before the proper authorities for examination. - ..... CORPORATION REFORM. —The t i rm!iminary mcet of the citiz, , as of atlious to eff,:.ct in the abuses of the Corporation has eventuated in the establisla rnent of a society, which held its first meeting on Wednesday evening at the rooms of the Society, Basinghall-street. EAST INDIA SHIPPING Arrivals.—The Seppings, Rawlins, from Van Diemen's Land, in the Downs, sailed May 25, and New Zealand June 19 ; Honduras, Weller, from Van Diemen's Land, in the Downs, sailed from Launceston June 19 ; Emma, King, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the Downs, sailed from Table Bay August 11, and St. Helena Aug. 28; Jane Sheriffs, Manson, from the Mauritius, in the Downs, sailed June 13, Cape of Good Hope July 18, and St. Helena, Aug. 8. Calcutta, July 18.—The Malcolm, Eyles, bound to Lon don, while weighing anchor a day or two back, in prosecution of her voyage, or from having run foul of her own hawsers, re ceived so much injury in her head and forepart, that she is now lying at Cooley Bazaal, discharging her cargo, to ascertain the nature and extent of damage, and would sail about the 30th of July fur London. The Herefordshire, Isaacson, was in dock, having been on the Futtah Sand, on the 25th of June, but sustained very slight damage. The Bolton, Young, had returned to Calcutta, having met with damage in proceeding down the river, but was to sail on the 22d of July, for Singa pore and China. The Gaspar, Pool, from Calcutta to Bos ton, has been totally wrecked near Hoogley Point. The Ruby, Randle, from China to Bombay, was lost to the north ward of the Chagos Archipelago, on the 224 of June, with specie on board—crew saved in the long and jolly-boats. THE ENGLISH AND IRISH LABOURERS. — The disturbances among the English and Irish labourers em ployed on the Northern terminus of the Lancaster and Pres ton Railway have ceased. The demands of the rioters for the dismissal of the Irish having been acceded to by the con tractor, they have quietly returned to their work, and ope rations have been resumed. —Lancaster Guardian. The SCHOOLMASTER `V ANTED.—In a case which came before the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Monday, an auctioneer residing near Hampton.bridge, Hampshire, for warded to the insolvent a valuation of his wife's wearinr , ap parel and other property, PS required by the Court. Amongc' the items were the following :—S;x schemes (chemises), six nice schemes, five pettycots, two gownds, &e. A curious scene was witnessed on Sunday week (the day of the wake), at the little village of Allensmore, in Here fordshire. As the congregation was leaving church in tn.: evening, a gentleman of fortune residing in the neighbourhood, who, as he expresses hirfiself, is friendly to the innocent amuse ments of the humbler classes, stood with a basket in his hand, and distributed cakes and fruit to those leaving the porch, the scramble for the articles causing much amusement to the lookers-on. The worthy clergyman, .vho expresses himself friendly to the manly sports of the labourer on week days, has preached against Sunday wakes and revels.— Worcester Journal. _ _ Not many mornings since a staff officer, attached to the army of Africa, proceeded in full uniform, barefooted, and holding a lighted wax taper in his hand, to the chapel of Notre Dame de la Garde, outside the walls of Marseilles. The pilgrimage is said to have been undertaken in fulfilment of a vow made by the officer after a fall from his horse. In the forenoon of Saturday last a heavy fall of snow took place at Gateshead, which continued three or four hours. Thus we have winter beginnin g in earnest before the close of the harvest in the north of England. On Monday last two infants, one two years and a half, and the other only 15 months old, the children of James Nash, of Norley, being left under the care of a little girl of four years of age, were allowed to wander to the bottom of the garden, where they fell off a plank into a shallow ditch, and were drowned--Chester Chronicle. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL.—The decision given by the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Friday, has led to the liberation of a number of persons who were in custody on mesne process. The whole number that have gone out on filing common bail from Whitecross street Prison is sixty-five up to Tuesday night, leaving about 306 in custody, including twenty on Court of Request execu tions. Before the Ist of October the number was 430. Not so many have got out under the New Act from the other pri sons, including the Queen's Bench, Fleet, and Horsemonger lane. It is calculated that upwards of 200 in the several counties have been discharged on filing common bail since the Ist October. They owe their liberation to the House of Lords altering the operation of the measure from the Ist De cember to the Ist October. After the 21st instant the de taining creditors will be in a situation to apply to the Court for a vesting order, under what is termed the compulsory clause. By the new law assignments are done away with ; the convey ance of property is made by an order ef the Court. Under the new rules the fees on the insolvents filing their proceedings are much increased to those formerly charged. THE STUD-HOUSE, HAMPTON•couRT.—The Earl and Countess of Albemarle gave a grand dinner yesterday to the Duke of Norfolk, Sir James Reynett, Colonel Wemyss, and a select party. The Hon. Major and Mrs- Keppell have left for St. Leonard's. His Lordship will not go to Quiddenham Hall, his seat in Norfolk, until Christmas. The Worcester Journal complains that its letters, which came by the Birmingham Railroad last Thursday, reached their destination two hours later than they would have done by the turnpike mail. FORGERY AND EMEEZZLEMENT.—TVVO confi dential clerks in the banking-house of Miles, 11arfordand Co., of Bristol (named Salter and Northcote) are in custody, charged with forgery and embezzlement to the extent, it is said of 10,0001.— Commercial Gazette. On Saturday afternoon, about five o'clock, the fol lowing distressing occurrence took place at the new Polmadie colliery, belonging to Mr. Dixon of Covan-hill. Five men employed in the coal-pit, when leaving off work, entered a bucket at the bottom of the shank, for the purpose of being towed to the top. When the bucket began to ascend, it was discovered that one end of the cross bar to which it was at tached had loosened from the chain, and that the bar was thus drawn up only by one side—en the discovery of which, two of the men leaped out, before they had risen far from the bottom. The other three, however, kept their places, and were towed up to within a few feet of the surface. Here the only remaining rivet which kept the bar fastened to the chain, was driven out, as is supposed by the action of the former on the sides of the pit, when the bar, and the bucket containing the three men, were of course precipitated to the bottom, a depth of about 100 fathoms. It is needless to say that the unfor tunate men were frightfully mangled, and deprived instan taneously of lite. The names of the sufferers are Daniel Donald, John Morgan, and John M'llwear, the first a collier, and the two latter drainers. Donald has been upwards of twenty years employed in the works, and was, we understand, much respected by his employer, being a steady well-behaved workman. He has left a wife and seven children, three of whom are employed in the colliery. On entering the bucket for the purpose of ascending he asked two of his sons to ac company him, but most providentially they proposed waiting till another opportunity. The other two sufferers were un married, and comparatively strangers in the place. Morgan resided in Bridgegate, and M'llwear, who lived in the vici nity, came not long ago from Bellshill. All three were na tives of Ireland. At the time of the accident other three buckets were ascending, one containing workmen, and the other two filled with coals ; but as they were held by distinct fasten ings, they reached the top without any mishap. We may mention that there is a passage to the surface by means of a stair, which, it is directed, the workmen should always avail themselves of on coming up ; but as it is a dilatory and cir cuitous route, they generally adopt the more rapid ascent by " the tow.''—Glasgow Argus. TITHE PRINTING.—It iS stated that the Tithe Act printing will cost 4,000/. Rather more than that sum was paid for the Tithe printing, under the Million Act of 1833 ; but the printing under the present Act was given by the Treasury to the Stationary Office Contractor, whose charges are exactly two-thirds less than those formerly paid. And so economically bad the business been done, that al.. though many more Tithe Memorials have been already issued than were returned by the claimants in 1833, the whole cost does not yet amount to 2001. This is somewhat interesting news to the Clergy, as the expense of carrying through the Act comes out of the Million Fund.—Dublin Evening Post. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, as a French sailor, named Mar chand, belonging to the brig Sophie, at present lying in the Pool, was at work on the deck, part of the rigging gave way, and fell on his head. The sufferer was instantly taken on shore, covered with blood, and conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where his skull was found to be dreadfully frac tured, and a severe wound on his left shoulder. He lies in a very precarious state. EXTENSIVE ROBBERlES.—lnformation of the following robberies has been received by the police :—Ab sconded, on Tuesday last, John Varley, town traveller to Mr. Leas, silversmith, 8, Finsbury-street, Finsbury-square, stealing and carrying off plate value 1501., with which he was entrusted by his employer to deliver to various customers. The property consisted of massive silver tea-pots, coffee-pots, muffineers, cups, salt-cellars, &c., together with a valuable gold watch. The greater portion of the plate was engraved with the initials " J. L ," and the whole of it bore the Hall mark. ' On the same night two firkins of butter, value 41. 10s., were stolen from a cart in the Whitechapel-road. The felony was effected during the temporary absence of the carter, who had gone into an adjacent street to put a letter into the post. A man named Edward Turwill, a native of Birmingham, has ' been apprehended with a large quantity of plate and jewel lery, as also nearly 30/. in cash in his possession. The whole of the above is supposed to be stolen, as a number of skeleton keys were found in his pockets. James Dood, a private in the 53d Foot, stationed at Dublin, has absconded from the regi ment, having plundered the desk of Isis master, Captain Dyott, of 251. in notes, and four sovereigns. A servant of Mr. Goddard, 13, Macclesfield-street, City-road, has robbed his master of 10/. On Monday night, a quantity of wearing apparel, &c. was stolen from the house of Mr. Ruthven, Upper Russell-street ; and within the last few days the pre mises of Mr. J. Atkins, 2, Providence- place, Brook- green, Hammersmith, have been plundered of a gold French repeater, a silver hunting--watch, and a gold crystal seal and key. Sus picion is attached to a man named Smith, who was a lodger in the house. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at West minster Bridewell on the body of Mary Ann Whatley, aged 33, a prisoner, who committed suicide by hanging herself. It was given in evidence that deceased was brought to the prison about six o'clock on Tuesday evening, having been committed by Mr. White, of Queen square police-office, for re-examina tion, on suspicion of stealing a gold watch and appendages from a gentleman. After undergoing the usual ordeal of b e i ng se arched, she was convey ed to a cell. About half-past six on thy'following morl,i4; Ao wrY (li - ico,•:ryt: !ringing by her E •tocl.iug , to ti • wsting of z- Ye;l. .._.r,,' w-Y , quit- , (i.:,olai , d cold. The deceased was very much addicted to drinking, and, when she could not obtain liquor, she was very desponding. Verdict-.-" Temporary Mental Derangement." PARI*H OF ST. GEORGE, BOUT WARK.—REFUSAL OF CHURCH-RATES. Yesterday being that upon which the poll, in referen ce to a Church -rate, was to close, the Vestry was ccoweted long before four o'clock, the hour at which the state ( ,f the poll was to be announced. There was also, as our rer.. tar s ' are aware, another poll taken upon the question rrheth, ir house should be built for the Rector, or whether the c, )a sideration of it should be postponed until Easter Tiles( bY next. Shortly before four o'clock the Rev. Mr. Hor Act took the chair. When the clock struck the hour when tbe poll was to to close, the Rev. Rector, attended by t Churchwardens and other parties, retired into the Chuff 'eh to make up the poll. During their absence, Mr. ANDERSON assured the Vestry that they ha! I a large majority for thet;three-halfpenny rate, and, had t ime been given for the ratepayers to pay the rates, there Iv add have been a majority of at least 500 , such was the ho stile feeling in that parish to any extravagan t outlay purposes of the Church. Hear. the ry The Rev. Rector, attended as before, returned', to Vest, and took his seat as Chairman. for the The VESTRY CLERK then announced th e state of the poll upon the two questions at issue to be as follows : The numbers that polled yesterday were : For the Two-penny rate For the three-halfpenny rate ............ 224 Majority .................. —(Loud cheers.) For adopting the Report recommending the Building of a House for the Rector .....• For postponing the consideration o f ......... 31 30 Majority against adoption of Report...• GROSS POLL ON THE THREE DAYS. 355 For the Two-penny rate For the Three-halfpenny rate —.37 Majority - —(Loud cheering.) For adopting the Building report.. 4288 For post poning its consideration until Eas•ter 357 Majority against the report 69 The vestry was then dissolved. COURT OF COMMON couNcIL• yesterday a Court was held for the disputcb of pu blic business. THE GUILDHALL MEDAL COMME MORATION OF THE 001495 VISIT. Mr. WOODTHORPE (the Town Clerk) read a letter front the Secretary to the British Museum, aclr.no tvledging the, receipt of the present of copies in silver a nd fo bro)ae ,s the medal by Wyon in commemoration of her MajestY visit to the City on the 9th of November, 1837, en d re ; turning the best thanks of the Trustees for so. desirable a addition to the collection of the institution.—CHear.) . e° „ Mr. LOTT considered himself bound to mo ye that copies be sent to the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquarian°, and the Society of Arts. be with.; CO Mr. HOARD hoped that the p/nposition woul d drawn, that it might not appear as i f an y objections vler„.. made to it upon the part of the Corporation. He Was vinced that there was no disposition to refuse.(Hear.l the Mr. LOTT should, in accordance with the practice 0 o Court, give notice of a motion to three institutions he had named. CITY IMPROVEMENTS. prese.nt modals t ° 1., jobs - Mr. Sheriff WOOD presented a petition frohm the ray•n g bitants of Watling-street and its neighbo urhoo.'l, p that that street might be improved and widened. t h a t the Sir PETER LAURIE was decidedly of opinion '— ld be first grand improvement that ought to be made shon ,ch to relieve Cheapside, the best way of accomplishing' I° "' tg was by widening Lad-lane and the line of narrow tr ee o r to the north of Cheapside.—(Loud cries of " No , 11 ' and " Yes, yes.") Mr. R. TAYLOR supported the pla n of first improving the streets north of Cheapside. After some further discussion the petition was ree f Al r•• to the Commissioners of Sewers upon the motion of WIRE, who supported its prayer. APPOINTMENT OF UNDER.SHERIFIS• 1- • d rho Mr. GADSDEN, after some observations, suonntte _r following motion to the Court :—" That this Court are n.'s opinion that an attempt on the part of any of its inerneaeilly to secure the election of gentlemen as Sheriffs LIP", o f understanding having reference to the appointmeebd to Under-Sheriffs is highly improper, as i.:Ping calc °l s ber id, iteerig, degrade not only the high and responsible otr;ee o f a fter but also the City of London." —The motion °va s ' some discussion, carried, and the Court adjourned. -,---,---','"`----------------------------- ii na , i THE WILL OF THE LATE SIR J OH N Nic, II KNT.-The will of the late Righ t H onou rable Sir John Nit:4)V Knt., has just been proved in the Prerogat iv e Court of 7.,° Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctors' Commons , by his s°'" John Nicholl, Esq., M.P., his executor and residuary legat ee " The amount of personal property is sworn under 140,00 01 . t ANOTHER CASPAR FIAUSER.—A case sor nevvha" resembling that of Caspar Hauser has recently been that vered in one of the most densely-populated quarte of French capital, only that while in the one c ase there is sup-. posed to have been EOM strong reason for concealing the ex istence of the unhappy man ; in the other appears to be onlY savage cruelty. At a house in the Enclos de la Trinite, inha: bited chiefly by honest and laborious peop le, dwelt a me' young: named L—, a straw-hatmaker. With him lived a woman, who was notoriously his mistress. There was sorqe thing strange in the manners of this man : he lived in _T e r most retired habits, and never had any one at his house ;Bauut his neighbours perceived that there was a mystery ,u," s him. On certain occasions the neighbours had beheittift wretched, meagre creature in his house, crawling about r ct naked. But the strange appearance had never been witntric:o many seconds by any of them ; for he was a lways c' ' id b e. back to some obscure place of which nothing CO ll , o it seen or heard. The place is so thickly inhabited, tulent, was not likely such a circumstance should rem the t b e and a discovery of the matter was at length mad e P e t 00 escape of the wretched creature from h is cell (whintravv witnessed by a neighbour) who it appears is the son of e .ato o r hat maker himself. The child was in a dreadful s' eA tha t; weakness, and almost naked, and had been so st .o. r y l e trousir seeing a table laid, he fell upon its content s, and s o .- fasting , devoured them that his stomach, wea k ene d by le i * Tbe refused the food and caused the most acute s ufferi n g s ; i ss ary, police having been informed of the matter, the Con_ hou se, accompanied by several of his men, proceeded to wereteemaboat where everything was apparently right, and they bey to leave the house without making en) discoverY,.wohteon vvitlor found an opening near the chimney which coramuniet d ifselL a workshop. There a horrible spectacle pro i en k e n ess 01 to their view—there, seated on the ground, in au!, contu sadness, naked, pale, and haggard, and covered svit' A a half sions, they beheld a poor child, about three years rook. old. It appeared excessively timid, and could e°;,,;,alicll The exterior of the body attested the cruel treatment 1 2 ) 031 to the poor creature had been exposed. The child was ken iate the Infants' Hospital, and the man and woman were ta custody.—Journal des Debats. m arke t An inquest was held last evening in e- Clar .ormer ii a on the body of a man named Parsons, aged 38, f orm i n lie waiter. Deceased had been very ill for some time a nd ..n iied t° cesaitous circumstances. On Tuesday morning be sP n r, coin' Mr. Kirby, relieving officer of St. Clement Danei acotber parry with his son, a boy of eleven years of age, an ~l ' ,`, girbY air. 0 Irian. According to the statement of the man , . him re d refused to admit deceased into the workhouse, had offerer apply next day ; but Mr. Kirby swore that he . h ° wo ve.: deceased and the boy immediate admission, -Iwo ,„ "s t i l, deceased had refused on the ground that he b ,1 1 .,, eleee- c ol ness to settle before going into the workhouse. , to , fe tr, it appeared, got home with much difficulty, Lo'l_4lloo%l dead in his bed next morning. Deceased's son ee7„ Na t Kirby-'s statement. The jury returned a ver dict T e , . hot , 13 . .. Death," with an expression of regr et that de e a ; „plir ie " been kept in the workhouse at the time of b' s inter est.' The inquiry lasted some time and excited great or 13-01's GREAT ADVANTAGE TO LA RGE CONS g o.. TEA. ofi ntili es t 1 of TEAS at WHOLESALE PRICES, incl it itii t he less than one pound, in tin cas es of 61bs. net, Or 0 this ad" r i; 121bs. and upwards. _ ~.,,......0 1 . fee . To afford every facility to large consumers, to vu.'-' " f t bs tisement is addressed, not less than one pound O • f i :et 0 4°4 0 made at this establishment, as the small profits yvil ~,,, usual division of quantities made by retail houses. .SALE 'IP G. T. MANSELL and CO., WHOL DEALERS, 2, Bueklersbury, Cheapside. 0 y i S, _ ------ IV A T G ifere d HORIZONTAL F LAT " t d, ars ° r ice with accurately finished jewelled movements, warranted, c es i l we l, in Silver cases, price Five Guineas each ; or in ~,,,aker, fro Nine Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, w a tch Doo rs Do ors ler, and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London (Se° Graeechurch-street). • exchange. N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in -------- 0 of a BIRTHS- „.,. no ro , • colns - At Dingwall, North Britain, the lady of Provost 1 -'' ..- , 0" _, _. G e orge On the 17th inst., the lady of T. P. L. Hallett, ° I. Lin inn, Esq., of a daughter. On the 17th inst. in Mecklenhurgh-street, Air' mend Shuttleworth, o i l a Eon. CO" MARRIED• a , garve , ' Fa At St. Mary's, Marylebone, by the Rev. Thorn sto ma tree , den Rectory, Sussex, the Rev. Thomas Higgin'.,., Bale d sonage, Worcestershire, to Maria Browne, of 4 0, rsea • stl'' youngest daughter of the late Joseph Browne, gEsi• 'leather, On the 16th inst., at Stoke, Mr. Dennet William whitey Worthing, to Mary Ann, third daughter of i trib -0 a t; of Ditton, Bucks. ha, se on cdoaans- On the 17th inst., at her father's house, street,Martha, Good Go Stat es ter of Michael Oppenheim, Esq., of Mansell:-a Unit ed fields, London, to Joseph Jonas, Esq., of Cicinn t Gr iffith, of America. , lin Delsneughter of second Ala On the 17th inst., at Hemel Hempsted, Esq., of Lambeth, to Georgiana Elizabeth, William Smith, Esq., of Hemel Hempsted. DIED. On the 16th in,i., at Charlton, n,,,,r, near „.....- 4 _...--- -"'',".--%"" /44. On the 17th inst., at Tottenham, John Holt, s E a e r c i a : h , ere wif e °f J.. ,r; t . ..........--t- G oi --- --------------T------ - - --- o - Y CS ' t outitl i London:ll2, Strand,l 3 rin Printed agePstlisohffiedceb?Nllol. of Middlesex. —Friday, October 19, 15,38. rjlrlt2D, Strau (Iv ja °le I, N-1 • 1;1 blkt t t4cici ce )4,14. ZL!t